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Chapter 8

Lesson 1

The War for Independence

• Continental Congress met in may 1775

1. The Second Continental Congress

•   The congress asked colonies to send soldiors to Masssachusetts

  The Continental Congress

2. The Continental Army

•  George Washington left Philidelphia to take change of his army



 3. The British Advantage

• On June 17, 1775 was one of the first battles

• The British had 50,000 soldiors and General Washington had 10,000 soldiors at one time



1. The Continental Army

• With little money and not much training, the Contintentals went to war with the most powerful army in the world

The Decision For Independence

Lesson 2

The First Steps

• On June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee gave a speech to the congress

• Only 33 years old Thomas Jefferson was a leader of the patroits

Writing The Declaration

• Thomas Jefferson had to convince people that the cause of independence was right fighting for

•  The British had refused to listen to what the colonists said

• The congress spent two days talking about the declaration on July 4 1776, the colonists had independence



Americans Take Sides

Lesson 3

• After the Declaration of Independence was signed people decided they would support the rebelling of the British king

• Some chose to be neutral taking neither side

The Declaration of Independence

Mary Ludwing Hays

Women and War

• Mary Ludwing Hays earned the name Molly Pitchen by bringing water to the troop during the long, hot battle of Monmouth fought on June 1778

•  Many women in the colonies took part in the movement to gain freedom



• Women also took part in the fighting like Mary Ludwing Hays traveled with her husband after he enlisted the Continental Army

• The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.

Lesson 4

Samuel's Choice



• Samuel Abnanam was 14 and was held as a slave in Brooklyn, NewYork

• In the summer of 1776, General George Washington and the Continental army were forced to retreat from Brooklyn as the British approached

• They were traveling to the Manhatin

• They wore blue uniforms

Lesson 5

Victory and Independence

• In 1777 Von Steuben reported that Washington took on the job of drilling the Continental army

Von Steuben

• In 1778 the soldiors were training and marching well



• On October 17, 1777 the British lost to Continental soldiors by General Horatio Gates

• Haiti was a French colony in the Carabeen

• With help of the Loyalists, the British army captured Charleston, South Carolina in 1780

• For several weeks Benedict Arnold, a former Continental army officer attaked colonial towns in virginia for the British

Vocab

Olive Branch- A symbol of peace

Continental- A solider in the colonial army

Mercenary- A hired solider

Enlist- to join

Revolution- A sudden complete



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